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SCREEN WRITERS' GUILD, INC.
1655 NO. CHEROKEE AVE., HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA AFFILIATED WITH AUTHORS' LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.
OFFICERS & EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE SCREEN WRITERS' GUILD: PRESIDENT: SHERIDAN GIBNEY; 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE SEATON; 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT, F. HUGH HERBERT; 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT, DWIGHT TAYLOR; SECRETARY, ARTHUR SHEEKMAN; TREASURER, HARRY TUGEND. EXECUTIVE BOARD: ROBERT ARDREY, ART ARTHUR, CLAUDE BINYON, CHARLES BRACKETT, FRANK CAVETT, OLIVE COOPER, VALENTINE DAVIES, RICHARD ENGLISH, EVERETT FREEMAN, PAUL GANGELIN, ALBERT HACKETT, ARTHUR KOBER, MILTON KRIMS, ERNEST PASCAL, LEONARD SPIGELGASS. COUNSEL, MORRIS E. COHN. EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY, ALICE PENNEMAN.
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ITH the box office suffering from summer complaint, the trade papers are once again interviewing everyone from Avak to J. Arthur Rank to find the reason.
The answer is always the same — bad pictures, and then somewhere near the bottom the sage being questioned always remarks that the inferior product is due to inferior story material. (Strangely enough, good pictures are always due to superb production, outstanding direction and magnificent acting — but that's something else again.) But for the sake of this discussion let the writers accept the responsibility for the present scarcity of patrons in the candy stores now showing motion pictures.
How will the producers go about obtaining better material? They'll try the same idea that has proved unsuccessful for many years. They'll hold contests. They'll hold dozens of them and give away close to a million dollars in prizes. There'll be one contest (which has been in existence for some time) sponsored by 20th Century-Fox in conjunction with Farrar, Straus and Co. and open only to "employees of newspapers or magazines in the United States and Canada." There'll be another held by Columbia for "members of the United Nations' Armed Forces." There will be several for college English students and at least one for the housewives of Passaic, New Jersey — but there won't be one for screen writers. From where we sit this seems very much like holdi-ng the national Open Golf Championships but barring anyone who can break ninety.
16 The Screen Writer, August, 194